For what it's worth, Homebrew and macports both have scripts for installing GTK+ from sources, so presumedly those could be cribbed into a standalone shell script for a build if desired:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/gtk+.rb https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/gnome/gtk2/Portfile Would that be worth exploring? I'd be willing to try and put something together if so. Also -- is the intention to stick with the latest patch release of the GTK+ 2.x series, or try to upgrade to GTK+ 3.x? (I suspect that GTK+-using packages would likely need to adapt to changes in GTK+ 3.x) Kevin On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 6:03 PM Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: > > We have a fairly complete coverage of packages for R 4.0.0, but one exception > is GTK+ (and thus RGtk2 and its dependencies). It seems that GTK+ has been > abandoned several years ago, the documented macOS build doesn't work and > there are no released binaries. To make things worse, Gnome has been > switching from autoconf to custom build systems that are also broken (quite > amazing - the build fails with an error in the build system's headers > including Python headers...), so the path of building our own release from > scratch is also not realistic anymore (we used to build GTK+ for X11 when it > was still possible). > > Hence this is a call to the R community to see if anyone actually cares. And > if so, if there is any known source or path to macOS binaries (script to > build it is fine, too). Unlike regular rules, we would allow dynamic linking > as we have granted that exception to GTK+ before, but it has to be compatible > with the native system. As a last resort, we could also re-use out GTK+ > 2.24.17 binaries from Snow Leopard, but those are considerably old, so I'd > prefer not to do that. Comments are welcome. > > Thanks, > Simon > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
